Chaos Luck Wrath (Broken Alliances Series Book 4) by Sadie Winchester

Author:Sadie Winchester [Winchester, Sadie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

CHAOS

The vision of Layne was ethereal. Her dark brunette locks of hair were being caressed by the wind in a delicate dance. The sun illuminated her fair skin and the white wedding gown she wore. When she looked at him, her breathtaking emerald eyes sparkled as her smile made them shine even brighter.

“Why didn’t you kill me, Joey?” Her words didn’t match the visage of a goddess he saw before him. They were such harsh words said with such a delicate voice.

Joey stood there reaching out for her hand. “What are you talking about? Layney, I love you. I would never hurt you.” Somehow her hand was always just out of reach of his fingertips no matter how far he stretched.

Layne’s face became flooded with glittering tears. “But you did. You killed me. You made sure I wasn’t in that car. You have signed my death warrant every time you saved me.”

He kept running for her, trying to close the distance between them. All he needed was to hold her. Holding her would make it all okay. Yet, no matter how fast his legs carried him, he never seemed to get any closer to her. “No, that’s not true!”

Her sobs echoed in his ears. “You didn’t save me this time, did you?” She looked down and suddenly crimson blood poured from several small holes in her chest. Holes which were created by bullets he should have taken for her. With profound sadness, she stared at her hands coated in the shiny red liquid of what should never have been spilling so freely from her body.

Joey yelled for her, feeling the painful burn of lactic acid in his legs and the ache of depleted oxygen in his lungs as he ran faster and harder for her. “NO! LAYNE!” He couldn’t let her fall into death; he couldn’t allow himself to lose her.

Just when he thought he could wrap his arms around her to pull her into the safe embrace of his hold, her body faded into nothing but cold.

The surroundings swirled and shifted and now he was in the church they had been married in. At the altar were two coffins, one considerably smaller than the other.

When he approached the larger of the caskets, it remained open to reveal Shannon O’Reilly lying there in the peaceful slumber of death. He stepped over to the smaller casket which had been left closed. Joey’s hand reached out and began to lift the lid to see who was inside.

The top half of the coffin opened and the horrific sight greeted him. A ten-year-old Layne was laid to eternal rest inside. She should have looked innocently angelic and perfect, and yet her body was bruised and her skin was marred with damage.

The little version of Layne suddenly popped her eyes open like a creepy doll, staring directly at him. “You’ll never keep me from my fate. I’m already lost.”

He stumbled back, tripping over his own feet. When he fell, he expected to land on his ass—instead, the sensation of falling continued for far longer than should have been possible.

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